Samsung Galaxy S

Apple blast! There's a big fat update in store for all you iDevice owners, that being iOS 4.2 - if you've not already got it, just wait a little bit longer, according to most, this release will be available at around 10AM PST. Then, our little pal Android hits of catwalk in promotion of that sassy Giorgio Armani Samsung Galaxy S. Next, some radical columns for epic discussion: "Why my Nintendo Wii has been collecting dust" and "Why 2014 Will Not Be Like 1984" on the future of Apple's closed system and survival in the face of competing openness. Finally, just incase you missed it, our "Week with" review series of NOOKcolor started on Saturday night! First up, Hardware! All this and MORE on SlashGear Moring Wrap-up!

Some people walk the dog, drink coffee and read the paper at the weekend; others, like mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin, spend their time playing with early examples of pre-release smartphones. According to the notorious tipster, he's spent at least part of the weekend with the Sony Ericsson ANZU and the Samsung Galaxy 2 GT-i9100, the latter of which packs a potent dual-core processor.

Samsung's mobile devision head Shin Jong-kyun has told reporters in Seoul that the company expects to sell more than 20 million smartphones by the end of 2010, (up from 18 million units projected earlier in the year.) From there, he said, Samsung Electronics Co feels it will sell more than 40 million smartphones worldwide in 2011. This was reported by the lovely Nikkei Business Daily newspaper in sunny Seoul South Korea.

A device believed to be the Google Nexus Two has supposedly been spotted in the wild, and according to the tipster it's the handiwork of Samsung, not HTC. Gizmodo heard from someone claiming hands-on experience with the upcoming Google-brand Android smartphone, and from their report it's all disappointingly similar to the Samsung Galaxy S.

Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone has finally received its official update to Android 2.2 Froyo, with users in Norway, Denmark and Sweden telling BriefMobile that the new I9000 JPM build has shown up in the Samsung Kies software manager. As well as bringing with it speed increases over the Eclair build of Android that the Galaxy S shipped with, the new ROM has Adobe Flash Player 10.1 support, a GPS fix and a "pinch-to-zoom homescreen flyover".

The Samsung Galaxy S is spreading itself around just about every carrier on the market today. That is a good thing too considering that the smartphone is a very nice device. US Cellular has announced that it will be the next wireless provider to offer customers the Galaxy S.

We caught a glimpse of the Samsung Continuum SCH-i400 yesterday, but now the dual-touchscreen Verizon Android phone has leaked more comprehensively. Android Central managed to snag some hands-on time with the Verizon Continuum, finding its main touchscreen to be considerably smaller than that of the Verizon Fascinate and its Ticker mini-touchscreen to work surprisingly well.

It's the middle of the week, but in better news, we're coming to the end of September. And that also means we're just about into the fourth quarter of the year. Counting down the days now. Tonight, though, in the news from around the Web, we've got a Jaguar concept car that looks amazing. And then, as usual, we'll wrap up things from around the R3 Media Network. So, welcome to the Wednesday edition of The Daily Slash.

Samsung and AT&T have pushed out a firmware update for the Samsung Captivate, the carrier's version of the Galaxy S, which addresses the GPS issues some users have reported. The new software - which will be delivered as an OTA update, and should show up on all Captivate handsets in service within the next few weeks - also consists of several other bugfixes and improvements.

Froyo may have hit for the Motorola DROID X - and with good effect - but we're still waiting for the Android 2.2 update for one of our other favorite big-screen smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S. Unfortunately there's still plenty of confusion as to when exactly Froyo for the Galaxy S might drop. Samsung UK maintains it's due for UK handsets before the end of September (and will be distributed via the company's Kies PC software tool), but other regions say it won't arrive until sometime in October.